Enthusiast!

By emo

March 04, 2011


13 years ago

I got into playing pinball from playing PC pinball simulations in the 1990's.

My first real game was a Gameshow. which was quickly followed by a Demoman before a procession of other dotmatrix and late alphanumerics. By the mid 00's I had also got into EM's and early SS games. I must have had something like 150 games since then.

I like games of all ages. Originally I only played at home or locally but now I also playing in competitions and have played at high levels. I have never played at my best when I needed too though. That hasn't spoiled my enjoyment of the game at all and I have learned a lot from other players in the process.

I have written pinball articles and lead the team that set up the UK Pinball League. I'm getting old now in terms of pinball and am not getting the scores I used to but I still like playing new games and trying to beat the small collection of games I have at home.

I'm into pinball for fun full stop.

Story photos

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Comments

13 years ago

man 200 games how did you find them all?
I guess when it rains it pours - nice

13 years ago

I didn't set out to have that many games but I'm curious and used to view games as puzzles. There aren't many games near me so I had to buy games to play them.
I was also curious about pinball history so was willing to buy anything that I found interesting, either working or a fixer if it was at the right price. I would then keep it and play it for a while and either swap or sell it on. I usually owned between 4 and 8 games at any one time, including projects. The most I had at one time was 13 but that left me no room to set any up, which wasn't the smartest move :) Hmm been adding up wrong more like 150, still a lot!

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